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WEATHER STRIP.

No. 405,347. Patented June 18, 1889.

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HARLOW WILLIAM COOK, OF OTTAIVA, KANSAS.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,347, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed September 20, 1888. $erial No. 285,871. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARLOW ILLIAM COOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ottawa, in the county of Franklin and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Veather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in automatically-adjustable weather-strips for doors; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a door with a weather-strip embodying the invention attached, the door being broken away below to show the interior mechanism. Fig.2 is a side view of the weather-strip and actuating mechanism detached and enlarged. Fig. 3 is an edge or plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is an end view of the hinged end of the door. v

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a door, and B O the hinge-jamb and latch-jamb, respectively, of the frame of said door.

D represents a recess in the lower edge of the door, of suitable depth and width to contain the working mechanism, and d d are long Vertical notches or slits running up fromthe front of said recess in the side rails of the door, one of said notches being shown in Fig. 1 and the other one being shown in Fig. 4.

E is a somewhat longer and wider slit, running up from the rear of the recess I) in the side rail, to which the hinges are attached.

F is a thin flat rectangular board, forming the weather-strip and running longitudinally within the recess D, with its ends extending in the notches or slits cl, which weather-strip is as long as the door is wide.

G is an angle-lever pivoted near its inner end at H to the middle of the weather-strip, and at a suitable distance from said end at I to the door near its lower edge at the rear side of the recess 1). At the pivotal point I the lever has preferably an obtuse angle t, with its apex pointing downward, as shown.

J is a short upwardly-extending arm at the outer end of the lever, and K is a disk journaled to the end of said arm, and heavy enough to overweigh the weather-strip, raising the same within ths recess D and causing the arm .I to fall outward in the notch or slit E when the door is open, the disk then protruding out of said notch. WVhen the door is closed, the said disk comes in contact with the inner surface of the hinge jamb and is forced inward, thereby depressing the inner arm of the lever G and moving the weather-strip downward out of the recess D far enough for its lower edge to come in contact with the floor. By pivoting the inner end of the lever near the upper edge'of the weather-strip the said end will not show below the door when the weather-strip is depressed, and by pivoting it near the lower edge of the door the recess D may be made more shallow than if the pivotal point were higher.

The mechanism actuating the weather-strip is simple of construction, durable and effective, and requires no spring to raise said strip. As the latter is raised bygravity, the outward falling of the disk K, when the door is opened, causes the ascent of the strip.

Having described my invention, I claim As an improvement in weather-strips, the combination, with the door having the recess D in its lower edge and the notches d d and E in its side edges, of the strip F, arranged in the recess D and having its ends moving in the notches d d, the angle-lever pivoted at one end to the center of the strip F and. at about its center to the door, within the recess D, and having an. arm at its free end projectin g upward in the notch E, and the disk journaled on said arm, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARLOW WILLIAM (100K.

-I Vitnesses:

W. W. JORDAN, O. C. MEoHEM. 

